On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 08:08:24PM -0400, William K Helbig Jr wrote: > > > Yes, there are two video controllers, the Kaveri APU and the Oland XT, > together requiring 16 pieces of microcode. That probably explains why it takes so long. > > My remark re the Penguins was meant more to report what the system was (not) > doing when the firmware was loaded as modules instead of being built into > the kernel. My main concern was/is why the different results between modules > and built-ins, particularly Ken has suggested that maybe it has to do with > loading order and/or timing of events and that seems a reasonable guess. > > And speaking of the Penguins, on my system they do not scroll off the top of > the screen. Even after logging in, they stay around until something actually > clears the entire screen. While they are present I have a 60 line by 210 > character display area in which text scrolls. I presume that is a function > of the framebuffer driver. > > Skip H > On all of my machines, the penguins always disappear a little while after the console is set up, and certainly before the boot has completed (but I do have a bit of BLFS in my minimal builds - rpcbind, nfs-client, ntpd, postfix, fcron all add bootscripts). With systemd, perhaps the penguins staying in place is normal.
What I might be doing differently to you is that I set up the console font. My machines all default to 8x16. On some I use my own 8x16 font to get better coverage, on others I use my own 12x22 font. I don't think I could handle trying to read 60x210, let alone whatever your full screen gives you. At times in the past I have used video= on the kernel command line, e.g. video=1024x768 or video=800x600 when the screen is actually 1600x1200. I also set a keymap, which probably doesn't affect things, and enable unicode which, in the sysv build, causes some kbd commands to be run on each tty (the S70console script in rcS.d). ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
